It's funny how the popularists will never mention this highly unpopular policy in the Trump administration and how Republicans need to run away from it ASAP.

Is there any precedent in history where a country starts a war against a vastly weaker country, and loses within a month?

Trump take game console

If you actually listen to this clip... it's hard to believe that someone incapable of keeping a consistent thought for 10 seconds controls unilateral nuclear launch authority, and now apparently also has unilateral authority to launch wars against any country he pleases.

The Trump administration is a massive insider trading operation, on top of whatever else it is they are doing.

Volume in stock and oil futures surged minutes before Trump’s market-turning post

I joke about this stuff but 15 minutes before the Trump post hit the tape there was a surge in e-mini price and volume. Someone knew and traded.

This is the second fatal plane crash of a major carrier under Trump 2.0 (and 3rd hull loss accident). In both cases they were due to failures in ATC procedures, not mechanical issues. There were no such accidents under Biden. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

I’m looking forward to all the right-wing natalists pushing WFH now /s

oh look at that www.pew.org/en/research-...

Ah, well, it’s great that the US isn’t known as being a country full of people who love to buy things. Nope, Americans are famously frugal!

This is psychological projection. If there were no tax evasion, tax revenue would increase by something like 2-4% of gdp - about half of the deficit. And tax evasion is overwhelmingly carried out by wealthy business owners.

Just a reminder, this is psychological projection. The Trump admin is constantly pursuing unpopular policies (tax cuts for rich, Iran war, ICE/CBP extrajudicially murdering Americans).

The DC murder rate in 2025 was around 20 per 100k residents, which is still well above almost every Western European capital, not to mention Tokyo or Seoul.

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children. This is learned today: Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%. www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

And this is why politicians shouldn’t point to the stock market as a measure of success. Not only are the benefits highly uneven, the markets are liable to make you a liar in a real hurry.

Trump says this is a “small price” to pay for his war on Iran.

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.

We are living in a time of absolute, utter madness...and too many people are unwilling to acknowledge it. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

Intelligence chair not showing any signs of intelligence

For all the theories that Trump represents a break from Republican orthodoxy, the results seem to be the same: unnecessary Middle East wars, a worsening economy, and record deficits.

Incredibly illuminating to compare income and hours worked across countries and states for ***the bottom 95% of earners only***. The typical Belgian earns as much as the typical Californian but works about 24% less via sethackerman.substack.com

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran. No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles. Worth a watch. (🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

This can’t be right I heard Trump destroyed the Iranian nuclear program last summer!

Yet another example of prediction markets not actually predicting anything, at least for events where insider knowledge does not exist.

It appears we may have replaced Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei

Boy, supporting a civil war in Iran, this can only end well. There certainly haven’t been any recent examples of countries in the Middle East collapsing into chaos as various factions via for supremacy and settle long-held grudges.

Paging Jake Tapper

This is worse than Benghazi. Yet we know Republicans are going to do nothing about this.

When 4 Americans died in Benghazi, Republicans ran continuous investigation for years. So, when are they planning on opening investigations into the deaths of Americans in this war of choice?

Boy. That would be bad. If only there were some sort of non-violent way, I don't know... perhaps an agreement of sorts, which would prevent this without random killing?

If the Republican SCOTUS justices want to play politics, they shouldn’t be surprised when elected officials want to play politics with them.

To be clear, what’s happening in Iran is already completely unlike Venezuela. They didn’t kidnap the leader and then have the 2nd in command step up without any additional fighting. Instead, we are seeing a regional war with no clear end in sight, one with major geopolitical and economic unknowns.

In the State of the Union Trump was crowing about how he had beat inflation. So much for that. Oh yeah, these numbers (and the Feb numbers!) don’t take into account the price shock caused by the outbreak of the Iran War.

Here’s that MSM bias everyone talks about. Instead of reporting facts, the media sanewashes Trump’s words.

Tulsi Gabbard released a fundraising video in 2019 titled "Trump's Path To War With Iran" "We've gotta stop Donald Trump from starting a war with Iran."

FWIW, the destruction of USAID under Trump, Rubio, and Musk will likely lead to more deaths than anything Iran did. In case you want context about “one of the most evil people in History”.

Our modern society is deeply depraved. A confluence of the very worst trends of the past decade.

manufacturing consent through lowly paid influencers

X as a website encourages people to do bigotry for likes and affirmation and this is the people who identify as left wing on there have decided it is morally acceptable to indulge in bsky.app/profile/bfis...

Just a reminder that Republicans and the MSM were upset that Hunter Biden made something around $10m when his father wasn’t president.

Oh no, don’t threaten me with a good time!

Imagine this were, say, A.G. Sulzberger (chairman and owner of the NYT) with Chuck Schumer or AOC. How would Republicans react?

FWIW, this is how Europeans and Canadians talk about vacationing in America nowadays.

The way this will actually pan out is that the tech execs will pretend to make such a pledge with Trump, Trump will trumpet it, and then electricity prices go up anyway, and everyone will be like, "well, it wasn't us".

These are Trump's numbers when the economy is still, on balance, not terrible. Imagine what these numbers would look like if he were facing an external shock like a financial crisis or major war.

America doesn’t need more retirement savings plans. There are already more than enough and they are very confusing. What they want is government support for lowering the most expensive things the need to live - housing, health care, education, and child care.

This article is a good case study in the arbitrary cruelty and injustice of Trump’s immigration policy. ICE agents are apparently incentivized via bonuses to detain people, and there is no accountability when they detain someone without a valid reason. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This is what happens when Republicans have power.